Student Publishes Country Quotes

Orange Coast College student Sheila Burgener has published her first book, “Twang! The Ultimate Book of Country Music Quotations,” along with professor Raymond Obstfeld.

The 246-page paperback was released nationally earlier this month by Fossil Press, an Orange County publishing company.

A longtime country music fan, Burgener, 42, came upon the idea for the book about 18 months ago while in one of Obstfeld’s writing classes.

She spent a year of research on the book.

“I’m so excited about this project I can hardly contain myself,” she said. “It was a huge project, and I worked almost nonstop for a full year, but it was fun. I enjoyed doing the detective work and uncovering hundreds of wonderful tidbits of information.”